Hermann Kallenbach

Hermann Kallenbach (1 March 1871-25 March 1945) was a South African-Jewish activist who was friends with Mahatma Gandhi.

Biography
Hermann Kallenbach was born in Zemaiciu Naumiestis, Lithuania, Russian Empire on 1 March 1871, the third of seven children born to a German-Jewish family. He studied architecture in Stuttgart and Munich before moving to South Africa in 1896, and he became a successful architect there. Kallenbach came to befriend Mahatma Gandhi, and the wealthy Kallenbach bought Gandhi a farm near Johannesburg in 1910. A wealthy, sport-loving bachelor, he adopted a simple lifestyle, a vegetarian diet, and Mahatma Gandhi's socialist views, and he was interned by the South African government during World War I due to his status as an "enemy alien". After the war, he resumed his career as an architect, and he became a Zionist after rediscovering his Jewish roots as a result of the rise of Nazism in Germany. He died in 1945 at the age of 74.